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A question about one's journey to satisfy meaning and understanding?
11-18-2012, 01:05 PM
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A question about one's journey to satisfy meaning and understanding?
How do individuals mediate (act as a go-between) amongst the various social, cultural, political, geographic, and economic forces in one's life in attempt to create meaning and understanding?Also to be considered are the ways in which larger groups exeret an influence on the individual's decision-making process.

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11-18-2012, 01:14 PM
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Phemonimal question, one in which 1000's of books could answer. Here's the basic building blocks of feeling "complete" and "content."

Over 95% of the population has no clue of what is really going on, the majority of which are found in the "followers" catagory. Indoctrinated sheep by gov'ts, religions, etc. Most leaders (of gov'ts, groups, religions etc) are charismatic "faces" lacking a well rounded understanding of the world and its people, getting by on an expertise that happens to make good sense for those followers who need meaning in their lives.

The key is freeing your own mind is finding truth. When you have truth - you have POWER. Power to lead you to success in all areas of your life so you can Live and enjoy life as you go along. "Life is a journey, its a destination.)

The second key is "forgiveness." Forgiveness is neccessary because when learning the "truth" and finding out how utterly blind and stupid others are, you need to understand they are only like you - someone searching for the easiest, best way to be happy in their lives. Even if its a thief, there's a world of variables that drove them to it.
You Cannot, or willnot grow spritually or intellectually to your maximum until you forgive. Holding anger in impedes growth.

After forgiveness comes the 3rd, Love. Thats love yourself, and learn to create constructive relationships with people around you, and eliminate as much contact with those (even close family members) who are negative.

Now comes the hard part: Study the following:

Philosophy: Read the 1 hour online free PDF called the "garbage generation." This will explain in part why western society is messed up, people are miserable, and it'll show you what makes people tick.

Religion: Study a bit of all the religions, find the good in all of them, and realize each of them are man made. Watch the first 25 minutes of the best online video of all times: "zeitgeistmovie" dot com. You'll be changed forver.

Political systems: Study Socialism, Fascism, Communism, and Free market systems. You'll learn how taking money via taxation creates dependant mindsets, while leaving it in the hands of individuals creates generous people. (More from the free market teachings.)

You'll learn equal is an impossible goal, whereas our current systems direct us to equal outcome (communism) based on race / gender rather than performance.

You'll discover we're on a path with the roman empire, and our end result will be 1 civil servant per 1 worker, rendering us too poor to feed our people and pay our military = self implosion and hostile take over by other nations.
(Read my "Best" answer on "Socialism."

It is said the "expert" has the least amount of decisions to make, and I both believe and practice this in my daily business dealings. The end result, is you Don't need those groups to exert influence on you for decision making because you know the underlying principals of how most things work and can ultimately think for yourself with confidence.

The last key is travel. Travel to different countries, find out what makes people tick. Understand why children living in dirt floor huts are happy, content, and smiling, and their western counterparts with PS2's, dirt bikes, TV and internet are miserable.

Have fun, finding own meaning in my life and the confidence to make my own decisions without feelings of guilt or "fear" has brought me (and my family, friends) great happiness.

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11-18-2012, 01:14 PM
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thats easy....let go of your ego......the hard part is actually doing it....
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11-18-2012, 01:14 PM
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A mediators main objective is to act as a non biased party to come to the best solution for all involved.
I pray to God for His guidance and He never leads me astray.
The most complete book that I know of is the bible. It answers
questions that we were created to ask about, in order that we may know the truth by His word. In order to understand the bible you must first accept Jesus as your Lord and savior and then God gives you the gift of the holy spirit and then the bible makes sense. To those who read without accepting Jesus the bible makes little or no sense to them, because with out the Holy Spirit the knowledge of Godly wisdom can not be known, and then we still don't and can't know it all. The very fact that you asked this question that is very deep in thought is proof of the fact that God wants us to know the truth.
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11-18-2012, 01:14 PM
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Why do you think it is necessary to find "meaning" and "understanding" in your life? Do you really think that if you find these two myths your life will improve?

The problem is that what has meaning for you now will not have meaning for you in a year, or a week, or even tomorrow.

So rather than search outside yourself for some sort of constant, why not direct the search inward and find out who and what you are.
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